Sustainable Commons: Housing and Urban Mining
Housing has become unaffordable and increasingly disconnected from contemporary lifestyles. Changing household compositions and habits…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Buildings and Urban Intellegence
Buildings and Urban Intelligence is a course report from the Fall 2023 semester at the…
A Team of Harvard Researchers Develop a Prototype for a More Efficient and Eco-friendly Air Conditioner
Continuing a trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record,…
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space
Below, Above, and Beyond: Future of Antwerp’s Mobility and Public Space is a Studio Report…
Technology, Trust, & Governance
Technology, Trust, & Governance is an Open Project Studio Report from the Spring…
Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice, and the Energy Transition
Houston, Texas, has been called the “prophetic city.” It is a city that is reflective…
Environmental Justice, Energy Infrastructure, Migration and War: What Role Does Design Play in Mitigating a Crisis?
At their speculative edge, the design professions flourish in envisioning future scenarios, and we usually…
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: A Meeting of Ideas at Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Commemorating Earth Day, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) hosted its…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Lucy Humphreys Chebot’s “Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues”
by Lucy Humphreys Chebot (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.